1 00:00:14,820 --> 00:00:16,300 WOMAN: Prime Minister, 2 00:00:16,300 --> 00:00:20,380 why do you think Cold Chisel has lasted 50 years? 3 00:00:20,380 --> 00:00:20,620 why do you think Cold Chisel Cold Chisel are legends. 4 00:00:20,620 --> 00:00:22,500 Cold Chisel are legends. 5 00:00:22,500 --> 00:00:22,740 (CHEERING) Cold Chisel are legends. 6 00:00:22,740 --> 00:00:25,180 (CHEERING) # Listen now to the wind, babe 7 00:00:27,420 --> 00:00:29,940 # Listen now to the rain... # 8 00:00:29,940 --> 00:00:34,460 They've lasted because of the quality of their songwriting, 9 00:00:34,460 --> 00:00:36,420 their musicianship, 10 00:00:36,420 --> 00:00:39,140 and they're a quintessential Australian band 11 00:00:39,140 --> 00:00:39,380 and they're who tell Australian stories. 12 00:00:39,380 --> 00:00:41,620 who tell Australian stories. 13 00:00:41,620 --> 00:00:45,140 # The first thing you know I'll be back in Bow River again... # 14 00:00:48,940 --> 00:00:51,660 It's hard to believe it's 50 years 15 00:00:51,660 --> 00:00:55,540 since Cold Chisel started out playing in pubs all around Australia, 16 00:00:55,540 --> 00:00:55,820 since Cold Chisel started out playing in pubs all around Australia, just like this one - the Civic Hotel in Sydney. 17 00:00:55,820 --> 00:00:58,140 just like this one - the Civic Hotel in Sydney. 18 00:00:58,140 --> 00:01:00,420 # I don't want to see this town no more... # 19 00:01:00,420 --> 00:01:00,660 # I don't want to see Over the decades, 20 00:01:00,660 --> 00:01:01,940 Over the decades, 21 00:01:01,940 --> 00:01:05,660 it's been a wild ride at times for the band and its audiences. 22 00:01:05,660 --> 00:01:07,380 Cold Chisel are a fantastic band, mate. 23 00:01:07,380 --> 00:01:09,700 They're...they're there as far as Australia's concerned. 24 00:01:09,700 --> 00:01:11,700 We're all here tonight to see them rage. Let's go. 25 00:01:11,700 --> 00:01:16,500 So why has Cold Chisel made such a lasting impact on this country? 26 00:01:16,500 --> 00:01:21,340 In this Australian Story, we'll talk to band members and also some fans 27 00:01:21,340 --> 00:01:26,660 to find out how this legendary group went from impoverished to iconic. 28 00:01:26,660 --> 00:01:26,900 to find out how this legendary group (KNOCK AT DOOR) 29 00:01:26,900 --> 00:01:28,180 (KNOCK AT DOOR) 30 00:01:28,180 --> 00:01:29,500 (CHUCKLES) Hello. 31 00:01:32,100 --> 00:01:33,100 Ian. Dude. 32 00:01:33,100 --> 00:01:33,340 Ian. Dude. 33 00:01:33,340 --> 00:01:34,140 Dude. 34 00:01:35,860 --> 00:01:37,420 Hey, there! Hey, Jimmy! 35 00:01:37,420 --> 00:01:38,980 How are ya? Nice to see ya, pal. 36 00:01:43,060 --> 00:01:44,380 (CHUCKLES) How are you, pal? 37 00:01:44,380 --> 00:01:45,820 Good. It's good to see ya. 38 00:01:45,820 --> 00:01:46,740 It's gonna be good, isn't it? Yes. 39 00:01:46,740 --> 00:01:48,940 We're all friends. We've always been friends. 40 00:01:48,940 --> 00:01:50,740 There's been moments where we didn't like each other, 41 00:01:50,740 --> 00:01:50,980 There's been moments but we've always loved each other. 42 00:01:50,980 --> 00:01:51,940 but we've always loved each other. 43 00:01:51,940 --> 00:01:52,180 The old studio, eh? but we've always loved each other. 44 00:01:52,180 --> 00:01:54,180 The old studio, eh? Still looks the same. 45 00:01:54,180 --> 00:01:55,540 Yeah. It's good. Yeah. 46 00:01:55,540 --> 00:01:58,060 I'll have to try and play the track for you. 47 00:01:59,300 --> 00:02:02,300 Hey, you know how good I am with all this stuff. 48 00:02:02,300 --> 00:02:05,060 We're like brothers. That's the way I see it. 49 00:02:05,060 --> 00:02:05,300 We're like brothers. (MUSIC PLAYS) 50 00:02:05,300 --> 00:02:08,060 (MUSIC PLAYS) 51 00:02:09,660 --> 00:02:11,300 It's not a business thing. 52 00:02:11,300 --> 00:02:12,500 It's about the music 53 00:02:12,500 --> 00:02:16,740 and it's about experiencing the music with these other people. 54 00:02:16,740 --> 00:02:21,220 # Well, you got to move... # # Got to move... # 55 00:02:21,220 --> 00:02:22,900 IAN: It hasn't been all smooth sailing, you know? 56 00:02:22,900 --> 00:02:26,420 Like any proper relationship with, I think, with a family member, 57 00:02:26,420 --> 00:02:26,660 Like any proper relationship there's going to be highs and lows. 58 00:02:26,660 --> 00:02:28,060 there's going to be highs and lows. 59 00:02:28,060 --> 00:02:31,260 And, uh, and we've been through all that. 60 00:02:33,580 --> 00:02:36,900 DON: There's good mutual history and there's bad mutual history. 61 00:02:38,700 --> 00:02:42,180 The bad mutual history tends to fade 62 00:02:42,180 --> 00:02:44,820 and get lost in the sepia 63 00:02:44,820 --> 00:02:47,020 until next time we try and do something. 64 00:02:47,020 --> 00:02:47,260 until next time (CHUCKLES) 65 00:02:47,260 --> 00:02:48,740 (CHUCKLES) 66 00:02:48,740 --> 00:02:48,980 # I'm standing on the outside (CHUCKLES) 67 00:02:48,980 --> 00:02:51,580 # I'm standing on the outside looking in 68 00:02:51,580 --> 00:02:55,300 # I'm standing on the outside looking in, whoa 69 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:57,820 # I never strayed outside the law... # 70 00:02:57,820 --> 00:03:01,220 MAN: One of the reasons Cold Chisel have so much respect and love 71 00:03:01,220 --> 00:03:04,380 is because it felt like they were the people's band. 72 00:03:04,380 --> 00:03:04,660 Like, they are historically a part of...of what we are. is because it felt like they were the people's band. 73 00:03:04,660 --> 00:03:10,140 Like, they are historically a part of...of what we are. 74 00:03:10,140 --> 00:03:10,420 Like, they are historically a part of...of what we are. And it's like, "Wow, it's nearly lasted half a century." 75 00:03:10,420 --> 00:03:12,980 And it's like, "Wow, it's nearly lasted half a century." 76 00:03:12,980 --> 00:03:15,860 # The first thing I do when I get into town 77 00:03:15,860 --> 00:03:18,140 # Is buy a .22 and cut the whole thing down... # 78 00:03:18,140 --> 00:03:20,700 MAN: The whole thing is built on good songs. 79 00:03:20,700 --> 00:03:20,940 MAN: The whole thing To last long, you need the songs. 80 00:03:20,940 --> 00:03:22,820 To last long, you need the songs. 81 00:03:24,140 --> 00:03:28,020 It's great musicians, you know, playing great songs. 82 00:03:28,020 --> 00:03:28,260 And that is the secret It's great musicians, you know, playing great songs. 83 00:03:28,260 --> 00:03:30,100 And that is the secret 84 00:03:30,100 --> 00:03:32,500 of, you know, their longevity. 85 00:03:32,500 --> 00:03:33,940 # Take a whole life's 86 00:03:33,940 --> 00:03:35,740 # Loneliness 87 00:03:35,740 --> 00:03:37,380 # Wrap it up in some 88 00:03:37,380 --> 00:03:38,460 # Tenderness... # 89 00:03:38,460 --> 00:03:38,700 # Tenderness... # MAN: And then what happens is, the songs start out as hits 90 00:03:38,700 --> 00:03:42,420 MAN: And then what happens is, the songs start out as hits 91 00:03:42,420 --> 00:03:43,900 and then they become anthems. 92 00:03:43,900 --> 00:03:46,740 # With all my love... # 93 00:03:46,740 --> 00:03:50,740 And then, with time, they become sacred. 94 00:03:50,740 --> 00:03:50,980 And this is what's happened. And then, with time, they become sacred. 95 00:03:50,980 --> 00:03:52,980 And this is what's happened. 96 00:03:52,980 --> 00:03:53,220 This is what's happened with this band. And this is what's happened. 97 00:03:53,220 --> 00:03:54,820 This is what's happened with this band. 98 00:03:54,820 --> 00:03:55,060 This is what's happened with this band. # Only one thing can set you free 99 00:03:55,060 --> 00:03:58,500 # Only one thing can set you free 100 00:03:58,500 --> 00:04:00,260 # Is all my love 101 00:04:02,420 --> 00:04:04,020 JIMMY: There was something about Cold Chisel 102 00:04:04,020 --> 00:04:08,940 that always sounded like we could implode at any minute. 103 00:04:08,940 --> 00:04:09,220 We didn't have a plan B. Never had a plan B with Cold Chisel. that always sounded like we could implode at any minute. 104 00:04:09,220 --> 00:04:11,940 We didn't have a plan B. Never had a plan B with Cold Chisel. 105 00:04:11,940 --> 00:04:12,220 We didn't have a plan B. Never had a plan B with Cold Chisel. It was...it was we go in and we make it or we die trying, 106 00:04:12,220 --> 00:04:15,300 It was...it was we go in and we make it or we die trying, 107 00:04:15,300 --> 00:04:16,700 and that was it. 108 00:04:21,260 --> 00:04:24,260 MAN: The guys, what are they like? 109 00:04:24,260 --> 00:04:26,780 They're actually all quite different. 110 00:04:26,780 --> 00:04:28,220 Phil, take one. 111 00:04:28,220 --> 00:04:29,980 Phil Small, the bass player, 112 00:04:29,980 --> 00:04:30,220 I don't think he's ever had an argument Phil Small, the bass player, 113 00:04:30,220 --> 00:04:31,860 I don't think he's ever had an argument 114 00:04:31,860 --> 00:04:32,100 I don't think with anybody in his life. 115 00:04:32,100 --> 00:04:33,980 with anybody in his life. 116 00:04:33,980 --> 00:04:34,180 with anybody in his life. Steve Prestwich, the drummer. 117 00:04:34,180 --> 00:04:35,860 Steve Prestwich, the drummer. 118 00:04:35,860 --> 00:04:38,780 If you said "Left," he'd say "Right." 119 00:04:38,780 --> 00:04:39,020 If you said "Left," If you said "Up," he'd say "Down." 120 00:04:39,020 --> 00:04:42,020 If you said "Up," he'd say "Down." 121 00:04:42,020 --> 00:04:44,900 He could be a pain in my arse, 122 00:04:44,900 --> 00:04:47,100 but I loved the guy dearly. 123 00:04:48,620 --> 00:04:51,540 Ian Moss - not only a great guitarist, 124 00:04:51,540 --> 00:04:51,780 Ian Moss - a brilliant vocalist. 125 00:04:51,780 --> 00:04:54,180 a brilliant vocalist. 126 00:04:54,180 --> 00:04:54,420 A vocalist that any band a brilliant vocalist. 127 00:04:54,420 --> 00:04:58,500 A vocalist that any band would give their right teeth for 128 00:04:58,500 --> 00:04:58,740 A vocalist that any band as a lead singer. 129 00:04:58,740 --> 00:04:59,980 as a lead singer. 130 00:04:59,980 --> 00:05:05,220 But then you've got this lead singer called Jimmy Barnes. 131 00:05:06,500 --> 00:05:10,780 This rascal that drove me around the bend, 132 00:05:10,780 --> 00:05:11,020 This rascal but the ultimate professional. 133 00:05:11,020 --> 00:05:13,500 but the ultimate professional. 134 00:05:13,500 --> 00:05:15,020 He'd spit the dummy, 135 00:05:15,020 --> 00:05:18,820 but he would always be guaranteed to be on that stage. 136 00:05:18,820 --> 00:05:23,980 # All last night we were learning... # 137 00:05:23,980 --> 00:05:24,220 # All last night Don Walker, the keyboard player, 138 00:05:24,220 --> 00:05:26,620 Don Walker, the keyboard player, 139 00:05:26,620 --> 00:05:29,020 the man behind it all. 140 00:05:29,020 --> 00:05:30,020 The leader. 141 00:05:30,020 --> 00:05:30,260 IAN: Don was older and The leader. 142 00:05:30,260 --> 00:05:34,140 IAN: Don was older and had some really clear-cut ideas 143 00:05:34,140 --> 00:05:34,420 on what we should do to start getting somewhere, IAN: Don was older and had some really clear-cut ideas 144 00:05:34,420 --> 00:05:36,460 on what we should do to start getting somewhere, 145 00:05:36,460 --> 00:05:39,060 and we did affectionately call him 'The Mastermind'. 146 00:05:40,260 --> 00:05:42,940 He was the guy, only real guy in the band 147 00:05:42,940 --> 00:05:46,220 who had a vision of what he wanted the band to be. 148 00:05:46,220 --> 00:05:49,140 We were just in the band because we liked being in a band. 149 00:05:52,540 --> 00:05:54,940 DON: Cold Chisel formed in Adelaide 150 00:05:54,940 --> 00:05:57,980 through, you know, a series of accidents. 151 00:05:57,980 --> 00:05:58,220 I answered an ad in a music shop through, you know, a series of accidents. 152 00:05:58,220 --> 00:06:00,500 I answered an ad in a music shop 153 00:06:00,500 --> 00:06:03,980 and found myself in... in a suburban house 154 00:06:03,980 --> 00:06:04,220 and found myself in... in a suburban house where Ian had seen the same ad. 155 00:06:04,220 --> 00:06:06,140 where Ian had seen the same ad. 156 00:06:06,140 --> 00:06:09,460 And gradually we bought people on board 157 00:06:09,460 --> 00:06:12,580 and, uh, tipped other people overboard. 158 00:06:13,820 --> 00:06:16,060 They actually were trying to get my brother, John, Swanee, 159 00:06:16,060 --> 00:06:17,260 who's a singer. 160 00:06:17,260 --> 00:06:19,740 And they approached him and he was like, making too much money to do it, 161 00:06:19,740 --> 00:06:20,860 so he said no. 162 00:06:20,860 --> 00:06:22,540 John suggested this other bloke he knew, 163 00:06:22,540 --> 00:06:24,260 and it was his younger brother, a guy called Jim. 164 00:06:25,700 --> 00:06:29,300 First hearing Jim sing, I think it was early days for him, 165 00:06:29,300 --> 00:06:31,500 might not have had the range, at that stage, 166 00:06:31,500 --> 00:06:31,740 might not have had the range, that his older brother John had. 167 00:06:31,740 --> 00:06:33,500 that his older brother John had. 168 00:06:33,500 --> 00:06:35,900 And at some stage Jim seemed to sort of somehow 169 00:06:35,900 --> 00:06:38,780 found like another octave, just almost overnight. 170 00:06:38,780 --> 00:06:39,020 found like another octave, It was extraordinary. 171 00:06:39,020 --> 00:06:39,780 It was extraordinary. 172 00:06:39,780 --> 00:06:43,380 # Well, I drove to the buyer just as fast as I could go... # 173 00:06:43,380 --> 00:06:45,620 PHIL: I had been out and had seen this band. 174 00:06:45,620 --> 00:06:47,140 There was just something about them. 175 00:06:47,140 --> 00:06:49,020 I thought they were just amazing, you know? 176 00:06:49,020 --> 00:06:49,260 I thought they were just amazing, They had a vibe, a feel. 177 00:06:49,260 --> 00:06:50,820 They had a vibe, a feel. 178 00:06:52,660 --> 00:06:54,980 I got a phone call from Ian Moss 179 00:06:54,980 --> 00:06:57,700 asking whether I'd be interested in coming for an audition, 180 00:06:57,700 --> 00:06:57,940 asking whether I'd be interested and I said, "Yes, of course." 181 00:06:57,940 --> 00:07:00,180 and I said, "Yes, of course." 182 00:07:00,180 --> 00:07:01,780 I jumped at it. 183 00:07:01,780 --> 00:07:02,940 IAN: So early years of the band, 184 00:07:02,940 --> 00:07:04,820 trying to make a living was... it was hard. 185 00:07:04,820 --> 00:07:10,100 We soon learned we had to be a cover band for a while, just to get work. 186 00:07:10,100 --> 00:07:10,340 We soon learned we had to be a cover DON: I was writing original songs. 187 00:07:10,340 --> 00:07:13,140 DON: I was writing original songs. 188 00:07:13,140 --> 00:07:14,900 A lot of them weren't very good. 189 00:07:14,900 --> 00:07:17,380 We wanted to be the biggest band in the world, 190 00:07:17,380 --> 00:07:20,100 but the path from where we were to that 191 00:07:20,100 --> 00:07:23,980 was, um, you know, pretty...pretty unclear. 192 00:07:23,980 --> 00:07:27,940 We just had this belief that, "What we're doing is the real thing, 193 00:07:27,940 --> 00:07:30,140 "and the whole rest of the world is wrong." 194 00:07:31,420 --> 00:07:33,140 Like all young bands. 195 00:07:33,140 --> 00:07:33,380 In the first few years Like all young bands. 196 00:07:33,380 --> 00:07:34,660 In the first few years of being in the band, 197 00:07:34,660 --> 00:07:36,500 it was, you know, we were very volatile. 198 00:07:36,500 --> 00:07:39,700 I think it's one of the big reasons we didn't get...we didn't get signed. 199 00:07:41,340 --> 00:07:42,980 I started in Cold Chisel troubled 200 00:07:42,980 --> 00:07:45,100 and became more troubled as we went on. 201 00:07:45,100 --> 00:07:49,660 And if you're troubled and you're out of control on booze and uppers, 202 00:07:49,660 --> 00:07:52,500 you know, uh, it's not a good combination. 203 00:07:53,460 --> 00:07:55,700 Having to deal with me on a day-to-day basis 204 00:07:55,700 --> 00:07:55,940 Having to deal with me must have been a nightmare, 205 00:07:55,940 --> 00:07:57,060 must have been a nightmare, 206 00:07:57,060 --> 00:08:00,340 because I was absolutely out of control. 207 00:08:01,460 --> 00:08:04,100 People would come and see Cold Chisel and we'd be arguing and fighting. 208 00:08:04,100 --> 00:08:04,340 People would come and see Cold Chisel Fist fighting sometimes. 209 00:08:04,340 --> 00:08:06,140 Fist fighting sometimes. 210 00:08:06,140 --> 00:08:06,380 Uh, so I constantly argued Fist fighting sometimes. 211 00:08:06,380 --> 00:08:09,220 Uh, so I constantly argued with everybody 212 00:08:09,220 --> 00:08:09,460 Uh, so I constantly argued and would, you know, leave the band. 213 00:08:09,460 --> 00:08:11,700 and would, you know, leave the band. 214 00:08:11,700 --> 00:08:13,660 I must have left Cold Chisel 30 times 215 00:08:13,660 --> 00:08:15,580 over...over the time we were together. 216 00:08:15,580 --> 00:08:18,020 I said, uh, you know, "We need a manager. 217 00:08:18,020 --> 00:08:21,140 "We're scraping along the bottom, going nowhere. 218 00:08:21,140 --> 00:08:27,100 "I need somebody that...that can, you know, help us get out of this." 219 00:08:28,580 --> 00:08:31,300 ROD: After spending 11 years overseas 220 00:08:31,300 --> 00:08:33,900 working as a tour manager, road manager, 221 00:08:33,900 --> 00:08:34,180 I was looking for a band that I could build a career with. working as a tour manager, road manager, 222 00:08:34,180 --> 00:08:39,980 I was looking for a band that I could build a career with. 223 00:08:39,980 --> 00:08:40,220 I was looking for a band that I could build a career with. My younger brother said to me, 224 00:08:40,220 --> 00:08:41,660 My younger brother said to me, 225 00:08:41,660 --> 00:08:41,900 "I've seen a band My younger brother said to me, 226 00:08:41,900 --> 00:08:44,740 "I've seen a band that you might like. 227 00:08:44,740 --> 00:08:44,980 "I've seen a band "Cold Chisel." 228 00:08:44,980 --> 00:08:46,140 "Cold Chisel." 229 00:08:46,140 --> 00:08:49,060 And I thought, "Oh, my God, what a dreadful name." 230 00:08:50,660 --> 00:08:53,980 He convinced me to go down to see this band 231 00:08:53,980 --> 00:08:54,220 He convinced me and it went through my head, 232 00:08:54,220 --> 00:08:56,740 and it went through my head, 233 00:08:56,740 --> 00:08:59,260 "This could be the motherlode." 234 00:08:59,260 --> 00:09:01,540 I remember sort of just telling them, 235 00:09:01,540 --> 00:09:05,820 I thought that not only could they be huge in Australia, 236 00:09:05,820 --> 00:09:08,660 but I think they had the potential for worldwide. 237 00:09:08,660 --> 00:09:08,940 In practice, nobody was really interested in us. but I think they had the potential for worldwide. 238 00:09:08,940 --> 00:09:11,620 In practice, nobody was really interested in us. 239 00:09:11,620 --> 00:09:11,860 In practice, nobody was We were going out and playing 240 00:09:11,860 --> 00:09:12,740 We were going out and playing 241 00:09:12,740 --> 00:09:12,980 to three or four people in Sydney We were going out and playing 242 00:09:12,980 --> 00:09:15,220 to three or four people in Sydney and starving. 243 00:09:15,220 --> 00:09:16,660 # "Go repent," said the preacher 244 00:09:16,660 --> 00:09:18,660 # With his hand stuck in your pocket... # 245 00:09:18,660 --> 00:09:21,020 ROD: From what I could gather from the band, 246 00:09:21,020 --> 00:09:23,460 they were living basically hand-to-mouth. 247 00:09:23,460 --> 00:09:25,420 Every record company had knocked them back 248 00:09:25,420 --> 00:09:29,020 and they've just spent their life on the road. 249 00:09:29,020 --> 00:09:29,260 and they've just spent their life We're just a... 250 00:09:29,260 --> 00:09:30,500 We're just a... 251 00:09:32,380 --> 00:09:34,380 ..heavy rock band... 252 00:09:34,380 --> 00:09:36,660 ..and, uh, with different influences, that's all. 253 00:09:36,660 --> 00:09:39,180 We built our crowd from live performance 254 00:09:39,180 --> 00:09:42,700 and our audience became very loyal, very staunch, 255 00:09:42,700 --> 00:09:44,780 and they'd come back, and they'd bring their friends. 256 00:09:44,780 --> 00:09:46,740 # When you find the Lord, you soon find out 257 00:09:46,740 --> 00:09:46,980 # When you find the Lord, # There is no way 258 00:09:46,980 --> 00:09:48,020 # There is no way 259 00:09:48,020 --> 00:09:50,220 # There is no way to stop him... # 260 00:09:50,220 --> 00:09:53,380 ROD: I mean, the band were working-class kids. 261 00:09:53,380 --> 00:09:56,620 They were pretty much like their audience. 262 00:09:56,620 --> 00:09:56,860 They were pretty much They were wild. 263 00:09:56,860 --> 00:09:58,220 They were wild. 264 00:09:58,220 --> 00:10:00,900 They were unpredictable, as such. 265 00:10:00,900 --> 00:10:03,500 But the audience loved them 266 00:10:03,500 --> 00:10:06,420 because I think they saw themselves up there. 267 00:10:09,700 --> 00:10:14,100 MARK: There was an amazing bond between the band and their fans. 268 00:10:14,100 --> 00:10:16,420 Radio didn't want to know Cold Chisel, 269 00:10:16,420 --> 00:10:16,660 but crowds across the country, Radio didn't want to know Cold Chisel, 270 00:10:16,660 --> 00:10:18,260 but crowds across the country, 271 00:10:18,260 --> 00:10:19,780 literally in their thousands, 272 00:10:19,780 --> 00:10:20,860 were coming to see them. 273 00:10:23,860 --> 00:10:25,780 DON: When Rod Willis came on board, 274 00:10:25,780 --> 00:10:29,300 I told him, you know, "We're playing the same places we were last year." 275 00:10:29,300 --> 00:10:31,700 And he said, "Maybe your situation will change 276 00:10:31,700 --> 00:10:31,940 And he said, "if you get some new songs." 277 00:10:31,940 --> 00:10:32,940 "if you get some new songs." 278 00:10:32,940 --> 00:10:35,660 And so I came in with Khe Sanh, 279 00:10:35,660 --> 00:10:37,700 which I had written some time before, 280 00:10:37,700 --> 00:10:39,100 and that was our new song. 281 00:10:39,100 --> 00:10:39,340 # I left my heart to the sappers round Khe Sanh... # and that was our new song. 282 00:10:39,340 --> 00:10:43,220 # I left my heart to the sappers round Khe Sanh... # 283 00:10:43,220 --> 00:10:47,340 It's about a Vietnam vet returning to Australia 284 00:10:47,340 --> 00:10:47,620 It's about a Vietnam vet returning to Australia and trying to find some settlement in post-war life. 285 00:10:47,620 --> 00:10:52,820 and trying to find some settlement in post-war life. 286 00:10:52,820 --> 00:10:53,060 and trying to find some # From the ocean to the Silver City 287 00:10:53,060 --> 00:10:55,460 # From the ocean to the Silver City 288 00:10:55,460 --> 00:10:59,660 # And it's only other vets could understand... # 289 00:11:00,580 --> 00:11:02,860 ROD: Khe Sanh was released as a single. 290 00:11:02,860 --> 00:11:07,620 It was immediately banned by the radio stations around the country, 291 00:11:07,620 --> 00:11:10,620 basically to do with a couple of lyrics. 292 00:11:10,620 --> 00:11:10,860 basically to do with One was "speed and novocaine" 293 00:11:10,860 --> 00:11:13,300 One was "speed and novocaine" 294 00:11:13,300 --> 00:11:13,540 and the other was One was "speed and novocaine" 295 00:11:13,540 --> 00:11:15,780 and the other was "her legs were always open". 296 00:11:15,780 --> 00:11:18,620 # And their legs were often open 297 00:11:18,620 --> 00:11:21,420 # And their minds were always closed... # 298 00:11:21,420 --> 00:11:21,660 # And their minds But the flip side of it all, 299 00:11:21,660 --> 00:11:23,900 But the flip side of it all, 300 00:11:23,900 --> 00:11:27,100 the controversy, the publicity from it, was good. 301 00:11:27,100 --> 00:11:31,180 # Well, the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone... # 302 00:11:31,180 --> 00:11:33,700 And literally things made a quantum leap. 303 00:11:33,700 --> 00:11:35,060 Our crowds immediately doubled. 304 00:11:35,060 --> 00:11:35,300 We doubled...we went to Our crowds immediately doubled. 305 00:11:35,300 --> 00:11:37,060 We doubled...we went to twice as bigger halls. 306 00:11:37,060 --> 00:11:41,620 # The last plane out of Sydney's almost gone. # 307 00:11:43,300 --> 00:11:45,460 DON: Over the course of a couple of albums, 308 00:11:45,460 --> 00:11:47,300 I was trying to figure out 309 00:11:47,300 --> 00:11:52,420 how to write, um, commercially successful melodies. 310 00:11:52,420 --> 00:11:52,660 how to write, um, I'm not a pop writer and never was. 311 00:11:52,660 --> 00:11:55,980 I'm not a pop writer and never was. 312 00:11:55,980 --> 00:11:59,140 But I...I think I can figure out most things. 313 00:12:00,460 --> 00:12:03,220 # Once I smoked a Dannemann cigar... # 314 00:12:03,220 --> 00:12:05,940 In the end, it worked. I must have figured something out. 315 00:12:05,940 --> 00:12:09,540 MAN: Two weeks ago, this was the most added song to radio playlists 316 00:12:09,540 --> 00:12:10,580 throughout Australia. 317 00:12:10,580 --> 00:12:13,060 This week it charted nationally at 29. 318 00:12:13,060 --> 00:12:15,300 Cold Chisel - Cheap Wine. 319 00:12:18,060 --> 00:12:20,860 # I left it all behind 320 00:12:20,860 --> 00:12:25,380 # For my cheap wine and a three-day growth 321 00:12:26,340 --> 00:12:29,540 # Cheap wine and a three-day growth... # 322 00:12:29,540 --> 00:12:32,060 Don had this knack of writing songs, 323 00:12:32,060 --> 00:12:34,540 when I sang them, I thought they were about me 324 00:12:34,540 --> 00:12:37,940 and they were about the situation I was going through at the time. 325 00:12:37,940 --> 00:12:38,180 and they were about the situation # I don't mind taking charity 326 00:12:38,180 --> 00:12:41,580 # I don't mind taking charity 327 00:12:41,580 --> 00:12:44,460 # From those that I despise 328 00:12:44,460 --> 00:12:47,500 # Baby, I don't need your love... # 329 00:12:47,500 --> 00:12:50,580 And it took me a long, long time till I realised 330 00:12:50,580 --> 00:12:53,100 that that's what everybody in the audience was thinking too. 331 00:12:54,380 --> 00:12:58,660 Every single person in our audience thought that song was about them, 332 00:12:58,660 --> 00:12:58,900 Every single person in our audience which was...you can't ask for more. 333 00:12:58,900 --> 00:13:01,140 which was...you can't ask for more. 334 00:13:01,140 --> 00:13:04,220 # Drunks come in 335 00:13:04,220 --> 00:13:07,500 # A paper bag, Brandivino... # 336 00:13:07,500 --> 00:13:11,420 MARK: Nobody else was articulating the kind of stories 337 00:13:11,420 --> 00:13:13,740 that Cold Chisel were telling in song. 338 00:13:13,740 --> 00:13:13,980 that Cold Chisel # ..cappuccino... # 339 00:13:13,980 --> 00:13:15,660 # ..cappuccino... # 340 00:13:15,660 --> 00:13:16,980 And they were like, kind of like 341 00:13:16,980 --> 00:13:20,060 thank-you notes to the fans in a funny way, 342 00:13:20,060 --> 00:13:22,980 because they were always drawing authentically 343 00:13:22,980 --> 00:13:23,220 because they were always from their fans' lives. 344 00:13:23,220 --> 00:13:26,180 from their fans' lives. 345 00:13:26,180 --> 00:13:26,380 # Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh from their fans' lives. 346 00:13:26,380 --> 00:13:29,180 # Oh, oh-oh-oh, oh 347 00:13:30,340 --> 00:13:32,860 # Breakfast at Sweethearts... # 348 00:13:32,860 --> 00:13:33,100 # Breakfast at Sweethearts... # IAN: Other band members stepped up to the writing plate, 349 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:36,420 IAN: Other band members stepped up to the writing plate, 350 00:13:36,420 --> 00:13:38,660 not leaving it all on Don's shoulders. 351 00:13:38,660 --> 00:13:41,620 And it just seemed to be this, I don't know, 352 00:13:41,620 --> 00:13:41,860 And it just seemed to be this, a period of...of we were in love. 353 00:13:41,860 --> 00:13:44,900 a period of...of we were in love. 354 00:13:44,900 --> 00:13:45,980 That...that kind of feeling. 355 00:13:45,980 --> 00:13:46,220 That...that kind of feeling. It was just, uh, everything we were doing felt like gold 356 00:13:46,220 --> 00:13:49,260 It was just, uh, everything we were doing felt like gold 357 00:13:49,260 --> 00:13:52,620 and, uh, and just, uh, just inspired. 358 00:13:52,620 --> 00:13:52,860 and, uh, and just, # I know I got 359 00:13:52,860 --> 00:13:54,300 # I know I got 360 00:13:56,460 --> 00:13:58,060 # My baby 361 00:14:00,260 --> 00:14:02,060 # My baby... # 362 00:14:02,060 --> 00:14:02,300 # My baby... # MARK: Cold Chisel fought their way through to radio airplay 363 00:14:02,300 --> 00:14:06,180 MARK: Cold Chisel fought their way through to radio airplay 364 00:14:06,180 --> 00:14:09,220 by becoming so popular they were unstoppable. 365 00:14:09,220 --> 00:14:09,460 by becoming so popular By 1980, they were definitely 366 00:14:09,460 --> 00:14:11,940 By 1980, they were definitely 367 00:14:11,940 --> 00:14:15,020 the number one rock band in Australia by far. 368 00:14:15,020 --> 00:14:15,780 By far. 369 00:14:15,780 --> 00:14:19,260 MAN: As Countdown presents live from the Regent Theatre in Sydney, 370 00:14:19,260 --> 00:14:19,500 MAN: As Countdown presents live the 1980 TV Week Rock Music Awards. 371 00:14:19,500 --> 00:14:21,980 the 1980 TV Week Rock Music Awards. 372 00:14:21,980 --> 00:14:24,380 (CHEERING) 373 00:14:24,380 --> 00:14:28,420 The band were asked to perform at the Countdown Rock Awards. 374 00:14:28,420 --> 00:14:30,660 And the band were very much against it. 375 00:14:30,660 --> 00:14:33,340 And what an amazing year it was for Australian music. 376 00:14:33,340 --> 00:14:36,900 Split Enz and Cold Chisel released two of the finest albums 377 00:14:36,900 --> 00:14:38,300 ever produced in Australia. 378 00:14:38,300 --> 00:14:41,700 We'd been at the mercy of Countdown and...and TV Week, you know. 379 00:14:41,700 --> 00:14:44,220 Like, you needed to be in the middle of TV Week 380 00:14:44,220 --> 00:14:45,740 and you had to be on Countdown 381 00:14:45,740 --> 00:14:45,980 if you wanted to make it and you had to be on Countdown 382 00:14:45,980 --> 00:14:47,300 if you wanted to make it in this country. 383 00:14:47,300 --> 00:14:49,460 We hated people having any control over the band, 384 00:14:49,460 --> 00:14:51,980 and we just wanted to, you know, shake it up and say, 385 00:14:51,980 --> 00:14:53,780 "Hey, we're doing things on our terms." 386 00:14:53,780 --> 00:14:57,780 MOLLY MELDRUM: From their live album Swingshift, Cold Chisel! 387 00:14:57,780 --> 00:14:58,020 MOLLY MELDRUM: From their live album My Turn To Cry! 388 00:14:58,020 --> 00:14:59,300 My Turn To Cry! 389 00:15:01,060 --> 00:15:02,660 MARK: They just exploded on stage 390 00:15:02,660 --> 00:15:02,900 and they changed the lyrics MARK: They just exploded on stage 391 00:15:02,900 --> 00:15:06,180 and they changed the lyrics to the song on the night, 392 00:15:06,180 --> 00:15:06,420 and they changed the lyrics and they listed all the venues, 393 00:15:06,420 --> 00:15:07,540 and they listed all the venues, 394 00:15:07,540 --> 00:15:10,260 which were really... the venues were like battlegrounds 395 00:15:10,260 --> 00:15:12,780 where they had triumphed with the people 396 00:15:12,780 --> 00:15:15,660 over the commercial and industry resistance 397 00:15:15,660 --> 00:15:15,900 over the commercial that had tried to stop them. 398 00:15:15,900 --> 00:15:16,860 that had tried to stop them. 399 00:15:16,860 --> 00:15:21,380 # I never saw you at the Ashford Hotel 400 00:15:21,380 --> 00:15:26,020 # I never saw you at the Point Hotel...# 401 00:15:26,020 --> 00:15:26,300 I never saw you at the Largs Pier Hotel. # I never saw you at the Point Hotel...# 402 00:15:26,300 --> 00:15:27,540 I never saw you at the Largs Pier Hotel. 403 00:15:27,540 --> 00:15:30,100 I've never seen you in Fitzroy Street, you know? When I'm starving. 404 00:15:31,020 --> 00:15:35,260 # And now you're trying to use my face to sell TV Week... # 405 00:15:35,260 --> 00:15:36,900 PHIL: We just kind of thought that, you know, 406 00:15:36,900 --> 00:15:40,100 "What's TV Week got to do with the music, really?" 407 00:15:40,100 --> 00:15:40,340 We thought, fuck them, you know? "What's TV Week got to do with the music, really?" 408 00:15:40,340 --> 00:15:42,380 We thought, fuck them, you know? 409 00:15:42,380 --> 00:15:43,740 They did nothing for us. 410 00:15:46,540 --> 00:15:48,500 ROD: At the end of the performance, 411 00:15:48,500 --> 00:15:51,300 the band basically demolished their equipment. 412 00:15:54,580 --> 00:15:59,660 (AUDIENCE SCREAMS, CHEERS) 413 00:15:59,660 --> 00:16:03,980 And the whole audience is agog and kind of half horrified. 414 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:10,060 I had phone calls from the record company. 415 00:16:10,060 --> 00:16:11,860 You know, "You've killed the band's career." I remember. 416 00:16:11,860 --> 00:16:14,580 But what suddenly started to happen was 417 00:16:14,580 --> 00:16:18,220 people started going to record shops and buying the record. 418 00:16:18,220 --> 00:16:18,460 people started going to record shops So suddenly they started to realise 419 00:16:18,460 --> 00:16:21,460 So suddenly they started to realise 420 00:16:21,460 --> 00:16:21,700 this is not something So suddenly they started to realise 421 00:16:21,700 --> 00:16:24,500 this is not something that's going to kill the career, 422 00:16:24,500 --> 00:16:28,500 this is going to escalate this career even further. 423 00:16:29,740 --> 00:16:31,140 MAN: It's what we're doing it for. 424 00:16:32,100 --> 00:16:34,380 We're five totally different people. 425 00:16:34,380 --> 00:16:36,540 You know, you couldn't find five more different people 426 00:16:36,540 --> 00:16:37,380 than we are in that band. 427 00:16:37,380 --> 00:16:39,060 It was always a battle. 428 00:16:39,060 --> 00:16:41,660 So, constantly that band... that band were fighting, 429 00:16:41,660 --> 00:16:41,900 So, constantly that band... and there was a lot of tension. 430 00:16:41,900 --> 00:16:43,540 and there was a lot of tension. 431 00:16:43,540 --> 00:16:43,780 WOMAN: Excuse me. and there was a lot of tension. 432 00:16:43,780 --> 00:16:45,620 WOMAN: Excuse me. Am I taking photos? 433 00:16:45,620 --> 00:16:45,860 WOMAN: Excuse me. No, you're taking photos. 434 00:16:45,860 --> 00:16:46,900 No, you're taking photos. 435 00:16:46,900 --> 00:16:50,100 ROD: Managing Cold Chisel was not an easy job. 436 00:16:50,100 --> 00:16:54,300 Jim and Steve would often get into fisticuffs. 437 00:16:54,300 --> 00:16:56,620 One was from Liverpool, one was from Glasgow. 438 00:16:56,620 --> 00:16:56,860 One was from Liverpool, And every time the road crew would 439 00:16:56,860 --> 00:16:59,820 And every time the road crew would 440 00:16:59,820 --> 00:17:02,020 convince them to go back into their room, 441 00:17:02,020 --> 00:17:06,300 one of them would put his head out and antagonise the other, 442 00:17:06,300 --> 00:17:07,780 and then they'd be off again. 443 00:17:07,780 --> 00:17:09,700 Him and I were literally like this the whole time. 444 00:17:09,700 --> 00:17:11,940 It was particularly the tension between me and Steve, you know, 445 00:17:11,940 --> 00:17:13,900 because he's...he's the timekeeper and I'm... 446 00:17:13,900 --> 00:17:16,220 You know, anybody's heard me sing, I'm in front all the time. 447 00:17:16,220 --> 00:17:18,140 I win every time. I'm always pushing. 448 00:17:18,140 --> 00:17:18,380 # At the Star Hotel I win every time. I'm always pushing. 449 00:17:18,380 --> 00:17:20,020 # At the Star Hotel 450 00:17:21,460 --> 00:17:22,740 # At the Star Hotel... # 451 00:17:22,740 --> 00:17:25,460 But it was...the tension made us sound exciting. 452 00:17:25,460 --> 00:17:25,740 But it was...the tension made us sound exciting. So the very thing that made it difficult to be a part of 453 00:17:25,740 --> 00:17:28,140 So the very thing that made it difficult to be a part of 454 00:17:28,140 --> 00:17:31,300 was also the thing that probably made us most appealing. 455 00:17:31,300 --> 00:17:32,340 It's a really incredible thing. 456 00:17:32,340 --> 00:17:33,500 You know, the whole thing, 457 00:17:33,500 --> 00:17:35,380 the whole secret of Cold Chisel was the tension. 458 00:17:35,380 --> 00:17:40,660 # Just a taste of things to come at the Star Hotel. # 459 00:17:40,660 --> 00:17:41,940 IAN: Trying to make it big in America 460 00:17:41,940 --> 00:17:42,180 IAN: Trying to make it big was definitely the Holy Grail. 461 00:17:42,180 --> 00:17:43,300 was definitely the Holy Grail. 462 00:17:43,300 --> 00:17:45,540 It was definitely the plan from...from day one, 463 00:17:45,540 --> 00:17:49,180 'cause I wanted to be a big international rock star. 464 00:17:49,180 --> 00:17:50,060 (LAUGHS) 465 00:17:53,540 --> 00:17:56,620 DON: We finished up going over there for five and a half weeks. 466 00:17:56,620 --> 00:17:56,900 We went there into the teeth of a record company DON: We finished up going over there for five and a half weeks. 467 00:17:56,900 --> 00:17:59,220 We went there into the teeth of a record company 468 00:17:59,220 --> 00:18:02,380 that actively hated us for one reason or another. 469 00:18:05,100 --> 00:18:09,100 We landed in America at a time where 470 00:18:09,100 --> 00:18:13,220 what we were doing on stage and on record 471 00:18:13,220 --> 00:18:16,500 was completely incomprehensible 472 00:18:16,500 --> 00:18:19,420 to what was in fashion 473 00:18:19,420 --> 00:18:21,460 right through the industry there. 474 00:18:21,460 --> 00:18:24,740 And they were mortally scared of it. 475 00:18:25,900 --> 00:18:29,260 IAN: There were some funny tensions on the road the whole time. 476 00:18:29,260 --> 00:18:29,500 IAN: There were some funny tensions Some guys had met future wives 477 00:18:29,500 --> 00:18:31,900 Some guys had met future wives 478 00:18:31,900 --> 00:18:35,860 and, uh, were missing them badly. 479 00:18:35,860 --> 00:18:36,100 And some guys hadn't, and, uh, were missing them badly. 480 00:18:36,100 --> 00:18:39,660 And some guys hadn't, and probably too strictly so 481 00:18:39,660 --> 00:18:39,900 And some guys hadn't, had some kind of policy of 482 00:18:39,900 --> 00:18:42,700 had some kind of policy of 483 00:18:42,700 --> 00:18:45,740 just the band on the road only, we need to focus. 484 00:18:45,740 --> 00:18:45,980 There is no question that just the band on the road only, we need to focus. 485 00:18:45,980 --> 00:18:47,580 There is no question that 486 00:18:47,580 --> 00:18:47,820 the American failure, There is no question that 487 00:18:47,820 --> 00:18:51,300 the American failure, and I call it that, 488 00:18:51,300 --> 00:18:51,540 the American failure, and I call it that, frustrated the band. 489 00:18:51,540 --> 00:18:52,900 frustrated the band. 490 00:18:52,900 --> 00:18:57,500 But the thing was, the band needed to be there. 491 00:18:57,500 --> 00:19:01,780 Uh...they needed to almost permanently move there. 492 00:19:03,220 --> 00:19:06,420 By that stage, the band had enjoyed 493 00:19:06,420 --> 00:19:10,460 a year or two of big success in Australia, 494 00:19:10,460 --> 00:19:15,660 and we had neither the stamina or the focus to go back to tours 495 00:19:15,660 --> 00:19:19,180 and do the hard stuff that you have to do 496 00:19:19,180 --> 00:19:22,660 in a new territory, such as America, 497 00:19:22,660 --> 00:19:22,900 in a new territory, much to my regret. 498 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:24,340 much to my regret. 499 00:19:25,300 --> 00:19:27,900 And much to the regret of all of us. 500 00:19:27,900 --> 00:19:28,140 And much to the regret We should have stayed there. 501 00:19:28,140 --> 00:19:29,060 We should have stayed there. 502 00:19:30,260 --> 00:19:32,500 Naively thinking, "Oh, we'll just go home and wait for... 503 00:19:32,500 --> 00:19:35,060 "..wait for it all to break for us, 504 00:19:35,060 --> 00:19:38,020 "and we'll come back and we'll be big stars." 505 00:19:38,020 --> 00:19:40,460 We were so disillusioned. We never wanted to go back. 506 00:19:40,460 --> 00:19:42,820 But I did get a good song. I wrote You Got Nothing I Want. 507 00:19:42,820 --> 00:19:43,060 # You got nothing I want But I did get a good song. I wrote You Got Nothing I Want. 508 00:19:43,060 --> 00:19:44,580 # You got nothing I want 509 00:19:44,580 --> 00:19:46,460 # You got nothing I need... # 510 00:19:47,860 --> 00:19:52,780 In 1993, the band toured Europe. 511 00:19:52,780 --> 00:19:52,980 In 1993, the band toured Europe. (SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE) 512 00:19:52,980 --> 00:19:55,980 (SPEAKS FOREIGN LANGUAGE) 513 00:19:55,980 --> 00:19:57,740 Cold Chisel. 514 00:19:57,740 --> 00:20:00,900 The reaction to it was fabulous 515 00:20:00,900 --> 00:20:01,140 and I definitely could see The reaction to it was fabulous 516 00:20:01,140 --> 00:20:04,700 and I definitely could see that there was a real future there. 517 00:20:04,700 --> 00:20:04,940 and I definitely could see # I set fire to the town 518 00:20:04,940 --> 00:20:06,900 # I set fire to the town 519 00:20:06,900 --> 00:20:09,300 # I'm gonna set fire to the town... # 520 00:20:09,300 --> 00:20:13,580 But unfortunately during the second European tour, 521 00:20:13,580 --> 00:20:17,060 that is when things started to deteriorate. 522 00:20:18,020 --> 00:20:19,420 IAN: There seemed to be some fracture 523 00:20:19,420 --> 00:20:23,380 between Steve and the rest of the band. 524 00:20:23,380 --> 00:20:25,860 We weren't knitting, weren't gelling. 525 00:20:28,380 --> 00:20:30,780 PHIL: Steve, our drummer, he was homesick. 526 00:20:30,780 --> 00:20:31,020 PHIL: Steve, our drummer, He just wanted to go back home. 527 00:20:31,020 --> 00:20:32,180 He just wanted to go back home. 528 00:20:32,180 --> 00:20:34,100 He didn't enjoy it at all. 529 00:20:34,100 --> 00:20:38,740 And Steve just kept on saying over and over, 530 00:20:38,740 --> 00:20:38,980 And Steve just kept on saying "We shouldn't fookin' be here. 531 00:20:38,980 --> 00:20:41,260 "We shouldn't fookin' be here. 532 00:20:41,260 --> 00:20:43,260 "We shouldn't fookin' be here." 533 00:20:43,260 --> 00:20:43,460 # Taipan "We shouldn't fookin' be here." 534 00:20:43,460 --> 00:20:45,900 # Taipan 535 00:20:48,700 --> 00:20:51,580 # He'll get you when he can... # 536 00:20:51,580 --> 00:20:51,820 # He'll get you when he can... # And then, you know, the band started to fall apart on stage. 537 00:20:51,820 --> 00:20:56,620 And then, you know, the band started to fall apart on stage. 538 00:20:56,620 --> 00:20:58,860 One! Two! One, two, three, four! 539 00:21:01,020 --> 00:21:02,980 I was trying to make him play too fast. 540 00:21:02,980 --> 00:21:05,020 The songs were losing the groove, you know. 541 00:21:05,020 --> 00:21:07,260 And it went beyond volatile. 542 00:21:07,260 --> 00:21:10,860 It went beyond sort of tension, and it just fell apart. 543 00:21:10,860 --> 00:21:11,140 # Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye... # It went beyond sort of tension, and it just fell apart. 544 00:21:11,140 --> 00:21:15,500 # Goodbye, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye... # 545 00:21:15,500 --> 00:21:19,780 I remember at one point Don has a CP-70 piano, 546 00:21:19,780 --> 00:21:20,060 I remember at one point Don has a CP-70 piano, and he just tipped the stand over and it just crashed on the floor, 547 00:21:20,060 --> 00:21:23,460 and he just tipped the stand over and it just crashed on the floor, 548 00:21:23,460 --> 00:21:25,580 but it was actually just sheer frustration. 549 00:21:25,580 --> 00:21:30,340 He walked off, and I thought at that point the band was dead. 550 00:21:31,740 --> 00:21:32,860 Look at you! 551 00:21:37,060 --> 00:21:41,020 ROD: Steve was singled out as the sacrificial lamb. 552 00:21:41,980 --> 00:21:47,980 And when we came back, um, he was basically, uh... 553 00:21:47,980 --> 00:21:49,500 Well, there was no other way of putting it. 554 00:21:49,500 --> 00:21:49,740 Well, there was no other way of ..fired, you know? 555 00:21:49,740 --> 00:21:51,060 ..fired, you know? 556 00:21:51,060 --> 00:21:54,540 That was a crying shame, really, when I think about it, 557 00:21:54,540 --> 00:21:59,340 because he was such an integral part of the band 558 00:21:59,340 --> 00:22:01,660 that you couldn't really replace him. 559 00:22:01,660 --> 00:22:04,220 At that stage, you know, it was 10 years or more. 560 00:22:04,220 --> 00:22:06,700 You know, we'd toured and toured and toured, recorded. 561 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:09,300 Jim was getting fed up. He wanted to do his own thing. 562 00:22:09,300 --> 00:22:09,540 Jim was getting fed up. We had a meeting at Don's place, 563 00:22:09,540 --> 00:22:11,580 We had a meeting at Don's place, 564 00:22:11,580 --> 00:22:16,380 and it was decided that the band would, um...would call it a day. 565 00:22:16,380 --> 00:22:17,420 Yeah. It was, um... 566 00:22:18,540 --> 00:22:20,740 ..depressing and scary 567 00:22:20,740 --> 00:22:22,460 because I thought that was it. 568 00:22:22,460 --> 00:22:23,260 It was all over. 569 00:22:23,260 --> 00:22:27,540 That it was time to forget music altogether and go get a real job 570 00:22:27,540 --> 00:22:27,780 That it was time to forget music and settle down and be responsible. 571 00:22:27,780 --> 00:22:30,060 and settle down and be responsible. 572 00:22:30,060 --> 00:22:35,060 And I said to them, "Well, we can go out with a whimper 573 00:22:35,060 --> 00:22:36,300 "or we can go out with a bang. 574 00:22:36,300 --> 00:22:39,020 "We should do a final tour." 575 00:22:39,020 --> 00:22:41,860 Suddenly everybody became all enthusiastic about it. 576 00:22:41,860 --> 00:22:45,180 It was kind of weird, a little bit perverse, you know. 577 00:22:45,180 --> 00:22:47,220 Like, we've just called it a day and now everybody's going, 578 00:22:47,220 --> 00:22:50,140 "Yeah, this will be great! Let's go out and tour," you know. 579 00:22:50,140 --> 00:22:52,140 You know, it's the last...last gig, you know. 580 00:22:52,140 --> 00:22:53,940 So I thought I'd best come and see 'em. 581 00:22:53,940 --> 00:22:55,020 I've seen him a couple times before. 582 00:22:55,020 --> 00:22:56,340 They're a really top group. 583 00:22:56,340 --> 00:22:57,540 They're not worth missing. 584 00:22:57,540 --> 00:23:01,420 We were quite concerned that if the tickets don't go well, 585 00:23:01,420 --> 00:23:03,700 we could be in a lot of trouble. 586 00:23:03,700 --> 00:23:05,820 I got a call from somebody. 587 00:23:05,820 --> 00:23:08,300 I think it might have been a radio guy saying, 588 00:23:08,300 --> 00:23:13,820 "Do you realise there's people camping out with their sleeping bags 589 00:23:13,820 --> 00:23:16,660 "outside the entertainment centres across the country?" 590 00:23:16,660 --> 00:23:20,180 Those tickets please, with seated numbers on them, 591 00:23:20,180 --> 00:23:22,020 would you like to go to the right side of McDonald's 592 00:23:22,020 --> 00:23:23,740 and go in the main entrance? Thank you. 593 00:23:23,740 --> 00:23:24,620 We love you, Jim Barnes. 594 00:23:24,620 --> 00:23:25,940 Don't you dare...! Don't break up! 595 00:23:25,940 --> 00:23:26,180 Don't you dare...! Come back! 596 00:23:26,180 --> 00:23:27,060 Come back! 597 00:23:27,060 --> 00:23:29,540 Don't go. We love you so much. Yeah, please. 598 00:23:29,540 --> 00:23:31,780 WOMAN: When I went to Cold Chisel's Last Stand, 599 00:23:31,780 --> 00:23:34,500 I would have been 16 years old. 600 00:23:34,500 --> 00:23:34,740 I would have been 16 years old. WOMAN: What do you think they've done for Australian music? 601 00:23:34,740 --> 00:23:37,020 WOMAN: What do you think they've done for Australian music? 602 00:23:37,020 --> 00:23:39,340 So, um, sort of given it an identity. 603 00:23:39,340 --> 00:23:40,620 Like, people sort of say Cold Chisel, 604 00:23:40,620 --> 00:23:42,460 and they say, "Hey, wow, it's really Australian." 605 00:23:42,460 --> 00:23:42,740 and they say, "Hey, wow, it's really Australian." And people, you know, something that... 606 00:23:42,740 --> 00:23:44,780 And people, you know, something that... 607 00:23:44,780 --> 00:23:45,020 And people, you know, The music is all about Australia. 608 00:23:45,020 --> 00:23:46,420 The music is all about Australia. 609 00:23:46,420 --> 00:23:47,420 I loved Cold Chisel. 610 00:23:47,420 --> 00:23:50,940 I couldn't believe just when I was starting to love their music 611 00:23:50,940 --> 00:23:51,180 I couldn't believe just when that it was all going to be over. 612 00:23:51,180 --> 00:23:52,140 that it was all going to be over. 613 00:23:52,140 --> 00:23:52,380 It's just the people because everyone gets right into it. that it was all going to be over. 614 00:23:52,380 --> 00:23:55,300 It's just the people because everyone gets right into it. 615 00:23:55,300 --> 00:23:55,580 I had to be there because It's just the people because I'd grown up with Cold Chisel, everyone gets right into it. 616 00:23:55,580 --> 00:23:59,100 I had to be there because I'd grown up with Cold Chisel, 617 00:23:59,100 --> 00:23:59,380 I had to be there because I'd grown up with Cold Chisel, but deep down in my heart, I'm thinking, 618 00:23:59,380 --> 00:24:01,700 but deep down in my heart, I'm thinking, 619 00:24:01,700 --> 00:24:07,460 "There's no way that this beautiful young band is going to stop here." 620 00:24:07,460 --> 00:24:07,700 "There's no way that this beautiful Let's go sing a few songs. 621 00:24:07,700 --> 00:24:09,020 Let's go sing a few songs. 622 00:24:09,020 --> 00:24:09,260 PHIL: We were all thinking that this Let's go sing a few songs. 623 00:24:09,260 --> 00:24:12,460 PHIL: We were all thinking that this is it. This is the last one. 624 00:24:12,460 --> 00:24:15,180 Yeah, it was pretty bittersweet, a bit...very sad 625 00:24:15,180 --> 00:24:17,180 because, you know, we knew it was the end. 626 00:24:17,180 --> 00:24:20,340 As far as we all individually thought, this... 627 00:24:20,340 --> 00:24:23,460 Never going to do this again. Not as Chisel. 628 00:24:24,380 --> 00:24:27,020 # She just jumped on a plane and paid no attention to me 629 00:24:28,740 --> 00:24:31,220 # Give me no notice but her goodbyes sure were sweet... # 630 00:24:32,460 --> 00:24:35,340 We wanted to go out in a blaze of glory. 631 00:24:35,340 --> 00:24:37,220 Steve was back in the band again, 632 00:24:37,220 --> 00:24:39,740 and it brought all that magic and fire back into the band. 633 00:24:39,740 --> 00:24:40,020 BOTH: # The Rising Sun just stole my girl away and it brought all that magic and fire back into the band. 634 00:24:40,020 --> 00:24:42,380 BOTH: # The Rising Sun just stole my girl away 635 00:24:44,060 --> 00:24:46,660 # The Rising Sun just stole my girl away... # 636 00:24:46,660 --> 00:24:46,940 # The Rising Sun just stole my girl away... # ROD: And there was an element of frustration. 637 00:24:46,940 --> 00:24:48,980 ROD: And there was an element of frustration. 638 00:24:48,980 --> 00:24:49,220 ROD: And there was an element I knew if they had stuck together 639 00:24:49,220 --> 00:24:52,700 I knew if they had stuck together 640 00:24:52,700 --> 00:24:55,460 that it could have happened for them overseas. 641 00:24:55,460 --> 00:24:58,020 I firmly believe that, even to this day. 642 00:24:58,980 --> 00:25:01,380 IAN: Halfway through that set, it just suddenly hit me. 643 00:25:01,380 --> 00:25:01,620 IAN: Halfway through that set, This... 644 00:25:01,620 --> 00:25:02,740 This... 645 00:25:02,740 --> 00:25:02,940 Uh, no, this is it, mate. This... 646 00:25:02,940 --> 00:25:05,620 Uh, no, this is it, mate. 647 00:25:05,620 --> 00:25:06,700 All done. 648 00:25:06,700 --> 00:25:06,940 All done. And there's little break, catch in my voice. 649 00:25:06,940 --> 00:25:08,740 And there's little break, catch in my voice. 650 00:25:08,740 --> 00:25:08,980 And there's little break, Just a tiny little catch. 651 00:25:08,980 --> 00:25:09,900 Just a tiny little catch. 652 00:25:09,900 --> 00:25:10,140 And that was me just... Just a tiny little catch. 653 00:25:10,140 --> 00:25:11,980 And that was me just... just catching myself from... 654 00:25:13,580 --> 00:25:15,340 ..starting to cry. 655 00:25:15,340 --> 00:25:17,660 BOTH: # Squeeze me, darlin', and don't let go 656 00:25:17,660 --> 00:25:19,700 # Hold me, darlin', don't let go 657 00:25:19,700 --> 00:25:21,820 # Squeeze me, darlin', and don't let go. # 658 00:25:23,860 --> 00:25:25,580 I'd be thinking, this is, you know, 659 00:25:25,580 --> 00:25:25,820 last time I'm going to play I'd be thinking, this is, you know, 660 00:25:25,820 --> 00:25:27,340 last time I'm going to play with these songs, 661 00:25:27,340 --> 00:25:29,980 and that was a frightening thing for me, 662 00:25:29,980 --> 00:25:30,220 and that was a frightening thing because I didn't know... 663 00:25:30,220 --> 00:25:31,620 because I didn't know... 664 00:25:31,620 --> 00:25:34,740 ..I didn't know how I could go on without that band around me. 665 00:25:34,740 --> 00:25:36,420 (CHEERING, APPLAUSE) 666 00:25:38,020 --> 00:25:39,260 DON: I was very happy. 667 00:25:39,260 --> 00:25:44,180 I felt...because it had been very tense in the band for quite a while, 668 00:25:44,180 --> 00:25:44,420 I felt a great freedom... I felt...because it had been very tense in the band for quite a while, 669 00:25:44,420 --> 00:25:47,260 I felt a great freedom... 670 00:25:48,300 --> 00:25:50,540 ..to be able to get on with the rest of my life. 671 00:25:50,540 --> 00:25:52,300 I was like, "Well, this is it for me." 672 00:25:52,300 --> 00:25:54,020 I don't...I didn't know what I was going to do. 673 00:25:54,020 --> 00:25:54,300 I don't...I didn't know what I was going to do. I thought Chisel would initially fade away. 674 00:25:54,300 --> 00:25:57,260 I thought Chisel would initially fade away. 675 00:25:57,260 --> 00:26:01,020 I just accepted that was...that was the last time we'd ever play. 676 00:26:01,020 --> 00:26:04,740 That within a couple of years, it would be "Cold who?" 677 00:26:05,780 --> 00:26:08,580 You're listening to Sydney's 104.9, Triple M. 678 00:26:08,580 --> 00:26:08,820 You're listening to This is Cold Chisel's Choir Girl. 679 00:26:08,820 --> 00:26:11,060 This is Cold Chisel's Choir Girl. 680 00:26:11,060 --> 00:26:12,980 ('CHOIR GIRL' PLAYS) 681 00:26:12,980 --> 00:26:13,220 ROD: After the band had broken up, ('CHOIR GIRL' PLAYS) 682 00:26:13,220 --> 00:26:16,180 ROD: After the band had broken up, strangely enough, 683 00:26:16,180 --> 00:26:16,420 ROD: After the band had broken up, instead of dropping the band, 684 00:26:16,420 --> 00:26:18,100 instead of dropping the band, 685 00:26:18,100 --> 00:26:20,780 FM radio really, really got behind it, 686 00:26:20,780 --> 00:26:23,300 and it just became their staple diet. 687 00:26:23,300 --> 00:26:26,860 # She's crying like a refugee... # 688 00:26:28,140 --> 00:26:29,740 MAN: FM radio was all about albums, 689 00:26:29,740 --> 00:26:29,980 and the bands that were making great albums, like Cold Chisel, MAN: FM radio was all about albums, 690 00:26:29,980 --> 00:26:33,300 and the bands that were making great albums, like Cold Chisel, 691 00:26:33,300 --> 00:26:34,500 were the go-to bands. 692 00:26:34,500 --> 00:26:34,700 were the go-to bands. # One nurse to hold her... # 693 00:26:34,700 --> 00:26:37,620 # One nurse to hold her... # 694 00:26:39,140 --> 00:26:40,660 I think for a lot of Australians, 695 00:26:40,660 --> 00:26:40,900 Cold Chisel WAS the soundtrack I think for a lot of Australians, 696 00:26:40,900 --> 00:26:44,700 Cold Chisel WAS the soundtrack to the best years of their lives. 697 00:26:45,700 --> 00:26:48,220 # Well, I've been trying... # 698 00:26:48,220 --> 00:26:51,060 So the fact that we were playing music long after they broke up 699 00:26:51,060 --> 00:26:52,100 is no surprise. 700 00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:53,580 Listeners were demanding it. 701 00:26:53,580 --> 00:26:53,780 # Every night when I go home... # Listeners were demanding it. 702 00:26:53,780 --> 00:26:56,460 # Every night when I go home... # 703 00:26:57,460 --> 00:27:01,060 IAN: Every time we switched on the radio, there was a Cold Chisel song. 704 00:27:01,060 --> 00:27:01,300 IAN: Every time we switched on the radio, there was a Cold Chisel song. It was a complete surprise. 705 00:27:01,300 --> 00:27:02,780 It was a complete surprise. 706 00:27:02,780 --> 00:27:04,540 And on and on and on it went. 707 00:27:04,540 --> 00:27:04,780 And then...I just realised these And on and on and on it went. 708 00:27:04,780 --> 00:27:09,060 And then...I just realised these songs, they're definitely here to... 709 00:27:09,060 --> 00:27:10,100 They're not going to go away. 710 00:27:10,100 --> 00:27:13,620 ROD: Then they ended up selling more records, as such, 711 00:27:13,620 --> 00:27:16,940 than what they had done prior to their break-up, 712 00:27:16,940 --> 00:27:19,180 and it's kept the name alive. 713 00:27:19,180 --> 00:27:23,180 # Get a dose of integrity... # 714 00:27:23,180 --> 00:27:23,380 It kind of made the band uncool # Get a dose of integrity... # 715 00:27:23,380 --> 00:27:25,380 It kind of made the band uncool 716 00:27:25,380 --> 00:27:27,580 because they had become so popular. 717 00:27:27,580 --> 00:27:27,820 because they had become so popular. So they were seen as part of this sort of bogan culture 718 00:27:27,820 --> 00:27:30,700 So they were seen as part of this sort of bogan culture 719 00:27:30,700 --> 00:27:33,980 that more sophisticated people were rejecting. 720 00:27:33,980 --> 00:27:39,780 # How could I not believe when Ita tells me to? # 721 00:27:39,780 --> 00:27:41,940 I mean, a lot of people just thought we were a pack of yobs. 722 00:27:41,940 --> 00:27:43,660 You know, there's a lot of people out there that just thought 723 00:27:43,660 --> 00:27:45,540 we were thick-headed yobs, which the band was far from. 724 00:27:46,860 --> 00:27:49,340 # Yes, it's true 725 00:27:49,340 --> 00:27:53,220 # When Ita tells me too. # 726 00:27:53,220 --> 00:27:55,700 Somehow people remained interested 727 00:27:55,700 --> 00:28:01,020 and Jim started to have, you know, big success around the country, 728 00:28:01,020 --> 00:28:01,260 and Jim started to have, you know, which has continued. 729 00:28:01,260 --> 00:28:02,700 which has continued. 730 00:28:02,700 --> 00:28:02,900 # You've got to stand your ground which has continued. 731 00:28:02,900 --> 00:28:05,180 # You've got to stand your ground 732 00:28:05,180 --> 00:28:08,420 # And fight to save your life... # 733 00:28:08,420 --> 00:28:08,660 # And fight to save your life... # And then a few years later, Ian had big success. 734 00:28:08,660 --> 00:28:12,060 And then a few years later, Ian had big success. 735 00:28:12,060 --> 00:28:12,300 # Me and mine are gonna be around And then a few years later, Ian had big success. 736 00:28:12,300 --> 00:28:15,340 # Me and mine are gonna be around 737 00:28:15,340 --> 00:28:15,580 # Me and mine are gonna be around a memory... # 738 00:28:15,580 --> 00:28:18,260 # When Tucker's daughter's a memory... # 739 00:28:19,260 --> 00:28:22,740 ROD: During that period, when they were off doing their own thing, 740 00:28:22,740 --> 00:28:22,980 ROD: During that period, when they there were rumours of, uh, offers. 741 00:28:22,980 --> 00:28:25,580 there were rumours of, uh, offers. 742 00:28:25,580 --> 00:28:25,820 Like, "If you could ever get there were rumours of, uh, offers. 743 00:28:25,820 --> 00:28:28,060 Like, "If you could ever get the band back together, 744 00:28:28,060 --> 00:28:30,940 "we'd be we'd be happy to give them $1 million," 745 00:28:30,940 --> 00:28:31,180 "we'd be we'd be happy or whatever the case may be. 746 00:28:31,180 --> 00:28:32,780 or whatever the case may be. 747 00:28:32,780 --> 00:28:36,260 But none of them were ever taken seriously. 748 00:28:36,260 --> 00:28:39,460 Uh, we weren't really interested for that. It was like... 749 00:28:39,460 --> 00:28:41,580 It was one of those things like hell freezing over, you know? 750 00:28:41,580 --> 00:28:41,820 It was one of those things like Because we thought we'd done it all. 751 00:28:41,820 --> 00:28:43,100 Because we thought we'd done it all. 752 00:28:43,100 --> 00:28:44,740 We said we weren't going to go back. 753 00:28:44,740 --> 00:28:48,980 # Yesterdays are gone... # 754 00:28:48,980 --> 00:28:53,540 In the early '90s, we released this album Teenage Love, 755 00:28:53,540 --> 00:28:59,460 which was a compilation of very early...recordings. 756 00:28:59,460 --> 00:28:59,700 # King's Cross is my home which was a compilation of very early...recordings. 757 00:28:59,700 --> 00:29:04,020 # King's Cross is my home 758 00:29:04,020 --> 00:29:08,580 # And all night long, I roam... # 759 00:29:08,580 --> 00:29:08,820 # And all night long, I roam... # It broke down the barriers, and they started talking. 760 00:29:08,820 --> 00:29:13,700 It broke down the barriers, and they started talking. 761 00:29:13,700 --> 00:29:13,940 It broke down the barriers, # As friends... # 762 00:29:13,940 --> 00:29:16,180 # As friends... # 763 00:29:16,180 --> 00:29:18,420 PHIL: I think we all missed it, tell you the truth. 764 00:29:18,420 --> 00:29:21,180 Maybe, you know, it's a possibility 765 00:29:21,180 --> 00:29:24,100 that the band could...could reform and do another tour. 766 00:29:24,100 --> 00:29:26,780 You know, I'd started to think it'd be great to do it again. 767 00:29:26,780 --> 00:29:30,020 Uh, but, you know, it's one of those things where you... 768 00:29:30,020 --> 00:29:32,260 There's a lot of...a lot of, you know, history, 769 00:29:32,260 --> 00:29:34,500 a lot of...a lot of ghosts, you know, 770 00:29:34,500 --> 00:29:36,020 attached to that band. 771 00:29:36,020 --> 00:29:38,820 Uh, and are they best left undisturbed, 772 00:29:38,820 --> 00:29:40,060 or do we disturb them again? 773 00:29:40,060 --> 00:29:41,740 I didn't like the idea... 774 00:29:43,300 --> 00:29:44,540 ..initially. 775 00:29:44,540 --> 00:29:44,780 Because I was adamant when the band ..initially. 776 00:29:44,780 --> 00:29:48,260 Because I was adamant when the band broke up that that is actually it. 777 00:29:48,260 --> 00:29:48,500 Because I was adamant when the band That's finished. 778 00:29:48,500 --> 00:29:50,380 That's finished. 779 00:29:50,380 --> 00:29:50,620 It took me another three years, at least another three years, That's finished. 780 00:29:50,620 --> 00:29:54,300 It took me another three years, at least another three years, 781 00:29:54,300 --> 00:29:56,740 to get them back together. 782 00:29:56,740 --> 00:29:56,940 to get them back together. All of this was in secret, 783 00:29:56,940 --> 00:29:58,500 All of this was in secret, 784 00:29:58,500 --> 00:30:01,900 so I had to find somewhere that was secure for the band 785 00:30:01,900 --> 00:30:06,180 and I eventually found the Opera House downstairs. 786 00:30:06,180 --> 00:30:07,620 Nobody knew about this. 787 00:30:07,620 --> 00:30:09,620 All those Chisel fans are out there 788 00:30:09,620 --> 00:30:12,220 wondering whether the band's ever going to get back together again, 789 00:30:12,220 --> 00:30:12,460 wondering whether the band's ever and there they are, 790 00:30:12,460 --> 00:30:13,460 and there they are, 791 00:30:13,460 --> 00:30:13,700 down in the bowels of and there they are, 792 00:30:13,700 --> 00:30:16,220 down in the bowels of the Sydney Opera House, 793 00:30:16,220 --> 00:30:18,740 basically putting together all the songs. 794 00:30:18,740 --> 00:30:20,700 (SINGS INDISTINCTLY) 795 00:30:22,020 --> 00:30:23,740 But the big question was, 796 00:30:23,740 --> 00:30:26,860 it's been 15 years since we were in a room together. 797 00:30:26,860 --> 00:30:27,100 it's been 15 years since Do we still sound any good? 798 00:30:27,100 --> 00:30:28,620 Do we still sound any good? 799 00:30:28,620 --> 00:30:31,260 (MUSIC PLAYS) That's better. 800 00:30:32,380 --> 00:30:37,340 There was great joy in the moment when we first lit something up, 801 00:30:37,340 --> 00:30:41,460 and realised that, yeah, we can play together. 802 00:30:41,460 --> 00:30:46,060 Bit rough, needs a bit of work, but it sounds pretty good. 803 00:30:46,060 --> 00:30:47,100 We're still a band. 804 00:30:54,940 --> 00:30:56,420 There's underlying excitement. 805 00:30:56,420 --> 00:30:58,900 No-one's saying anything, but I can... 806 00:30:58,900 --> 00:31:00,740 I can just feel it in the room. 807 00:31:00,740 --> 00:31:02,380 We know we've got it. 808 00:31:02,380 --> 00:31:05,580 Um, all we have to do is knuckle down and do the work. 809 00:31:07,100 --> 00:31:09,620 # The things I love in 810 00:31:10,980 --> 00:31:12,940 # The things I love in... # 811 00:31:12,940 --> 00:31:13,180 # The things I love in... # ROD: And so we decided we'd do three shows out in the country, 812 00:31:13,180 --> 00:31:17,020 ROD: And so we decided we'd do three shows out in the country, 813 00:31:17,020 --> 00:31:18,260 away from the city 814 00:31:18,260 --> 00:31:20,940 where nobody would see us other than the locals. 815 00:31:22,020 --> 00:31:25,260 It was advertised as Jimmy Barnes shows, 816 00:31:25,260 --> 00:31:28,180 so I always remember the look on people's face 817 00:31:28,180 --> 00:31:28,420 so I always remember when Jimmy Barnes's band come out, 818 00:31:28,420 --> 00:31:30,660 when Jimmy Barnes's band come out, 819 00:31:30,660 --> 00:31:32,900 but it's not Jimmy Barnes's band, it's... 820 00:31:32,900 --> 00:31:35,380 Oh, my God, that's Cold Chisel. 821 00:31:35,380 --> 00:31:37,020 ('THE THINGS I LOVE IN YOU' PLAYS) 822 00:31:37,020 --> 00:31:41,220 # I hung out on the corner doin' time... # 823 00:31:41,220 --> 00:31:43,860 PHIL: It was just... felt like the old days. 824 00:31:43,860 --> 00:31:47,780 It was good to see the crowds turn up in the numbers they did. 825 00:31:47,780 --> 00:31:51,660 That reaffirmed that, well, this wasn't a bad idea. 826 00:31:53,420 --> 00:31:56,620 # I love... 827 00:31:56,620 --> 00:31:59,780 IAN: I think, yeah, I think the magic was back. 828 00:31:59,780 --> 00:32:02,180 But it wasn't exactly the smoothest. 829 00:32:03,540 --> 00:32:04,820 Some, uh... 830 00:32:06,780 --> 00:32:09,260 ..rocky things going on internally. 831 00:32:09,260 --> 00:32:09,500 ..rocky things going on internally. The relationship between the guys in Cold Chisel is very, very good, 832 00:32:09,500 --> 00:32:14,380 The relationship between the guys in Cold Chisel is very, very good, 833 00:32:14,380 --> 00:32:14,620 The relationship between the guys when we're not working together. 834 00:32:14,620 --> 00:32:16,860 when we're not working together. 835 00:32:16,860 --> 00:32:21,020 But every time we get together, there are problems. 836 00:32:21,020 --> 00:32:25,300 # The things I love in you. # 837 00:32:26,700 --> 00:32:28,740 ROD: At the end of The Last Wave Of Summer, 838 00:32:28,740 --> 00:32:31,860 I mean, the same old tensions grew again. 839 00:32:31,860 --> 00:32:35,460 And the band, for want of a better word, imploded again. 840 00:32:35,460 --> 00:32:35,700 I think as we got older, And the band, for want of a better word, imploded again. 841 00:32:35,700 --> 00:32:37,420 I think as we got older, 842 00:32:37,420 --> 00:32:41,140 um, it's not that Cold Chisel kept breaking up then. 843 00:32:41,140 --> 00:32:41,420 um, it's not that Cold Chisel kept breaking up then. It was just we had to lay it to rest, 844 00:32:41,420 --> 00:32:43,740 It was just we had to lay it to rest, 845 00:32:43,740 --> 00:32:48,180 because we could only take so much of the intensity of it at one time. 846 00:32:48,180 --> 00:32:52,740 Uh, and that's the way it's been for the last, you know, 847 00:32:52,740 --> 00:32:55,060 30 or 40 years. (LAUGHS) 848 00:32:56,180 --> 00:32:58,620 # Saturday night 849 00:32:58,620 --> 00:32:58,820 # Do do do, do do, do do do # Saturday night 850 00:32:58,820 --> 00:33:02,180 # Do do do, do do, do do do 851 00:33:02,180 --> 00:33:04,580 # Saturday night 852 00:33:04,580 --> 00:33:07,780 # Do do do, do do, do do do 853 00:33:07,780 --> 00:33:10,220 # Saturday night... 854 00:33:10,220 --> 00:33:12,700 MARK: Each time that they have returned 855 00:33:12,700 --> 00:33:14,940 to play a series of national concerts, 856 00:33:14,940 --> 00:33:16,060 they come back together, 857 00:33:16,060 --> 00:33:18,100 and then they disappear for 5 or 10 years, 858 00:33:18,100 --> 00:33:18,340 and then they disappear come back together. 859 00:33:18,340 --> 00:33:19,380 come back together. 860 00:33:19,380 --> 00:33:21,780 They're still writing new songs. 861 00:33:21,780 --> 00:33:22,020 They're not trying to coast They're still writing new songs. 862 00:33:22,020 --> 00:33:26,300 They're not trying to coast simply on their old hits. 863 00:33:26,300 --> 00:33:27,940 But, you know, those first four albums, 864 00:33:27,940 --> 00:33:28,180 But, you know, they really kick arse. 865 00:33:28,180 --> 00:33:29,420 they really kick arse. 866 00:33:29,420 --> 00:33:30,620 (LAUGHS) You know? 867 00:33:30,620 --> 00:33:30,860 MAN: In 2009, Chisel played a huge one-off performance (LAUGHS) You know? 868 00:33:30,860 --> 00:33:34,780 MAN: In 2009, Chisel played a huge one-off performance 869 00:33:34,780 --> 00:33:37,980 to 50,000 people at Sydney's Olympic Park. 870 00:33:37,980 --> 00:33:38,260 to 50,000 people at Sydney's Olympic Park. Then they secretly started recording a new album, 871 00:33:38,260 --> 00:33:41,140 Then they secretly started recording a new album, 872 00:33:41,140 --> 00:33:41,380 Then they secretly making plans to tour again. 873 00:33:41,380 --> 00:33:42,940 making plans to tour again. 874 00:33:42,940 --> 00:33:43,180 But in early 2011, making plans to tour again. 875 00:33:43,180 --> 00:33:46,820 But in early 2011, they were dealt a massive blow. 876 00:33:48,980 --> 00:33:52,020 JIMMY: When Steve got sick, it was, like, heart wrenching. 877 00:33:53,020 --> 00:33:54,340 Steve was like my brother. 878 00:33:54,340 --> 00:33:56,500 We got drunk, we fought. 879 00:33:56,500 --> 00:34:00,300 We, you know, punched each other, we cuddled each other. 880 00:34:01,700 --> 00:34:03,300 IAN: We were in a rehearsal situation. 881 00:34:03,300 --> 00:34:06,500 We were sending somebody out to buy him Nurofen by the truckload 882 00:34:06,500 --> 00:34:09,140 because he always had these headaches. 883 00:34:09,140 --> 00:34:09,420 He had a prior brain tumour. I never even realised that. because he always had these headaches. 884 00:34:09,420 --> 00:34:12,180 He had a prior brain tumour. I never even realised that. 885 00:34:12,180 --> 00:34:12,460 He had a prior brain tumour. I never even realised that. So when I heard that... it had come back, 886 00:34:12,460 --> 00:34:16,340 So when I heard that... it had come back, 887 00:34:16,340 --> 00:34:16,580 So when I heard that... it was quite a shock for me. 888 00:34:16,580 --> 00:34:17,900 it was quite a shock for me. 889 00:34:18,980 --> 00:34:22,180 DON: And he was going to have to have an operation. 890 00:34:22,180 --> 00:34:25,380 I was talking to him right up, by phone, 891 00:34:25,380 --> 00:34:28,460 right up until, you know, the day before. 892 00:34:28,460 --> 00:34:28,700 right up until, And then he had the operation. 893 00:34:28,700 --> 00:34:31,540 And then he had the operation. 894 00:34:31,540 --> 00:34:33,260 He never regained consciousness. 895 00:34:33,260 --> 00:34:33,500 And suddenly we got this call He never regained consciousness. 896 00:34:33,500 --> 00:34:35,740 And suddenly we got this call that he didn't make it. 897 00:34:35,740 --> 00:34:39,180 And it was... It was like the world had fallen apart. 898 00:34:39,180 --> 00:34:39,420 # I got things to do... And it was... It was like the world had fallen apart. 899 00:34:39,420 --> 00:34:42,740 # I got things to do... 900 00:34:42,740 --> 00:34:46,980 After Steve's passing, we found one of his last songs that he'd written 901 00:34:46,980 --> 00:34:47,220 After Steve's passing, we found one of his last songs that he'd written called I've Got Things to Do, 902 00:34:47,220 --> 00:34:49,100 called I've Got Things to Do, 903 00:34:49,100 --> 00:34:52,180 and we decided to release it with him singing it. 904 00:34:52,180 --> 00:34:52,420 and we decided to release it # Honey, now, when you're gone... 905 00:34:52,420 --> 00:34:55,700 # Honey, now, when you're gone... 906 00:34:55,700 --> 00:34:55,940 Well, obviously you sort of build up a bit of something # Honey, now, when you're gone... 907 00:34:55,940 --> 00:34:59,980 Well, obviously you sort of build up a bit of something 908 00:34:59,980 --> 00:35:01,700 more than sort of camaraderie. 909 00:35:01,700 --> 00:35:02,820 It's... 910 00:35:02,820 --> 00:35:08,020 Because we've basically been living together for a long time, 911 00:35:08,020 --> 00:35:08,260 Because we've basically been you know, touring. 912 00:35:08,260 --> 00:35:10,260 you know, touring. 913 00:35:10,260 --> 00:35:11,900 Um... 914 00:35:11,900 --> 00:35:13,300 You know the old saying, you know, 915 00:35:13,300 --> 00:35:15,860 your friends are the people who you know all their faults as well, 916 00:35:15,860 --> 00:35:16,100 your friends are the people who but you still like them. (LAUGHS) 917 00:35:16,100 --> 00:35:17,380 but you still like them. (LAUGHS) 918 00:35:17,380 --> 00:35:17,620 You know, that's... I think but you still like them. (LAUGHS) 919 00:35:17,620 --> 00:35:20,500 You know, that's... I think that's what it boils down to. 920 00:35:20,500 --> 00:35:25,140 # My work is done, this is my time... # 921 00:35:25,140 --> 00:35:27,380 JIMMY: Steve wrote some of the most melodic songs 922 00:35:27,380 --> 00:35:28,700 that Cold Chisel ever played. 923 00:35:30,180 --> 00:35:32,740 Whenever we play, you know, Flame Trees, 924 00:35:32,740 --> 00:35:34,860 whenever we play When The War Is Over, 925 00:35:34,860 --> 00:35:37,260 you know, Forever Now, you know, it's... 926 00:35:37,260 --> 00:35:40,180 I still get, you know, misty and I get teary 927 00:35:40,180 --> 00:35:40,420 I still get, you know, thinking about Steve these days. 928 00:35:40,420 --> 00:35:42,020 thinking about Steve these days. 929 00:35:43,540 --> 00:35:45,380 IAN: When Steve passed away, um... 930 00:35:46,860 --> 00:35:48,820 "What do we do now? 931 00:35:48,820 --> 00:35:51,780 "Is it the respectful thing to end it all, finish it?" 932 00:35:51,780 --> 00:35:55,420 But I think as we sort of accepted his passing, 933 00:35:55,420 --> 00:35:55,660 But I think as we sort of we thought, 934 00:35:55,660 --> 00:35:56,420 we thought, 935 00:35:56,420 --> 00:36:01,860 "No, he would have wanted us to keep going and keep making music." 936 00:36:01,860 --> 00:36:02,100 # We share some history "No, he would have wanted us to keep going and keep making music." 937 00:36:02,100 --> 00:36:05,100 # We share some history 938 00:36:06,020 --> 00:36:08,900 # This town and I... 939 00:36:08,900 --> 00:36:09,140 # This town and I... MARK: History is Cold Chisel's reward, right? 940 00:36:09,140 --> 00:36:12,180 MARK: History is Cold Chisel's reward, right? 941 00:36:12,180 --> 00:36:12,460 MARK: History is Cold Chisel's reward, right? Their songs are embedded into the national psyche. 942 00:36:12,460 --> 00:36:15,660 Their songs are embedded into the national psyche. 943 00:36:17,100 --> 00:36:18,820 They're stone-cold classics. 944 00:36:18,820 --> 00:36:21,980 And there as much a part of who we are in our head spaces 945 00:36:21,980 --> 00:36:25,100 as Henry Lawson's story The Drover's Wife 946 00:36:25,100 --> 00:36:25,380 as Henry Lawson's story The Drover's Wife or Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, 947 00:36:25,380 --> 00:36:28,220 or Banjo Paterson's The Man from Snowy River, 948 00:36:28,220 --> 00:36:28,460 or Banjo Paterson's or whatever it might be. 949 00:36:28,460 --> 00:36:30,140 or whatever it might be. 950 00:36:30,140 --> 00:36:35,940 # Oh, the flame trees will blind the weary driver 951 00:36:37,900 --> 00:36:44,220 # And there's nothing else could set fire to this town... # 952 00:36:45,580 --> 00:36:49,260 I like to call the lyrics of Cold Chisel "people's poetry". 953 00:36:49,260 --> 00:36:49,500 I like to call the lyrics It really is. 954 00:36:49,500 --> 00:36:50,580 It really is. 955 00:36:50,580 --> 00:36:50,820 It really is. These are poetic songs delivered by stealth, 956 00:36:50,820 --> 00:36:53,700 These are poetic songs delivered by stealth, 957 00:36:53,700 --> 00:36:57,100 um, in a visage of rock'n'roll. 958 00:36:57,100 --> 00:36:57,380 # Ain't nobody gonna steal this heart away... um, in a visage of rock'n'roll. 959 00:36:57,380 --> 00:37:03,820 # Ain't nobody gonna steal this heart away... 960 00:37:03,820 --> 00:37:04,100 # Ain't nobody gonna steal this heart away... When I see a crowd singing back to me, it's bloody... 961 00:37:04,100 --> 00:37:06,740 When I see a crowd singing back to me, it's bloody... 962 00:37:06,740 --> 00:37:08,420 It's emotional. 963 00:37:08,420 --> 00:37:11,540 That's just the ultimate knowing that you've... 964 00:37:11,540 --> 00:37:11,780 That's just the ultimate ..you've won these people's hearts. 965 00:37:11,780 --> 00:37:13,300 ..you've won these people's hearts. 966 00:37:13,300 --> 00:37:21,340 # Ain't nobody gonna steal this heart away... # 967 00:37:21,340 --> 00:37:23,220 These songs have become a part of people's lives, 968 00:37:23,220 --> 00:37:27,540 and that's something that we never dreamed about as a band. 969 00:37:27,540 --> 00:37:30,820 People come up to me and stop me in the street and cry, you know, 970 00:37:30,820 --> 00:37:32,820 and say, you know, "I play your songs. 971 00:37:32,820 --> 00:37:34,380 "I played that at my son's 21st." 972 00:37:34,380 --> 00:37:38,420 You know, "I danced my first dance with my wife to your songs." 973 00:37:38,420 --> 00:37:38,660 You know, "I danced my first dance "I buried my father to your songs." 974 00:37:38,660 --> 00:37:40,340 "I buried my father to your songs." 975 00:37:40,340 --> 00:37:42,820 You know, you play... "I played this at my bar mitzvah." 976 00:37:45,660 --> 00:37:48,220 Well, it's music you listened to since you were, you know, 977 00:37:48,220 --> 00:37:48,460 Well, it's music you listened to 16 or 17 years old. 978 00:37:48,460 --> 00:37:49,540 16 or 17 years old. 979 00:37:50,540 --> 00:37:53,500 And I still listen to it to this day. 980 00:37:53,500 --> 00:37:53,740 And I still listen to it to this day. Flame Trees was always a favourite. 981 00:37:53,740 --> 00:37:56,420 Flame Trees was always a favourite. 982 00:37:56,420 --> 00:38:00,220 It was one of my wife's favourite songs as well. 983 00:38:00,220 --> 00:38:00,460 It was one of my wife's So when my wife passed away, 984 00:38:00,460 --> 00:38:02,700 So when my wife passed away, 985 00:38:02,700 --> 00:38:05,700 to have it used in her funeral service, 986 00:38:05,700 --> 00:38:05,940 to have it used it's very meaningful. 987 00:38:05,940 --> 00:38:07,820 it's very meaningful. 988 00:38:07,820 --> 00:38:09,300 # ..to this town... 989 00:38:10,540 --> 00:38:12,740 And also, um, near the end, 990 00:38:12,740 --> 00:38:15,940 when it says it makes it harder to believe that she won't be around, 991 00:38:15,940 --> 00:38:16,180 when it says it makes it harder and, um...yeah, it's, um...sad. 992 00:38:16,180 --> 00:38:18,940 and, um...yeah, it's, um...sad. 993 00:38:18,940 --> 00:38:19,180 # Just makes it harder to believe and, um...yeah, it's, um...sad. 994 00:38:19,180 --> 00:38:26,260 # Just makes it harder to believe that she won't be around 995 00:38:28,180 --> 00:38:29,940 # Oh 996 00:38:29,940 --> 00:38:34,460 # Who needs that sentimental bullshit anyway? # 997 00:38:34,460 --> 00:38:36,700 TRENT: There is nothing like 998 00:38:36,700 --> 00:38:39,900 the feeling of a party at midnight, 999 00:38:39,900 --> 00:38:43,740 and you wrap your arms around about 10 people you love, 1000 00:38:43,740 --> 00:38:46,300 and you all turn to yourself and say, 1001 00:38:46,300 --> 00:38:48,980 "Who needs that sentimental bullshit anyway?" 1002 00:38:50,140 --> 00:38:53,340 So who needs that sentimental bullshit anyway? 1003 00:38:54,820 --> 00:38:56,300 I do. 1004 00:38:56,300 --> 00:38:57,660 We all do. 1005 00:38:57,660 --> 00:39:01,660 ANNOUNCER: Members of the first Regiment. 1006 00:39:01,660 --> 00:39:01,900 ANNOUNCER: Members of MAN: As a Vietnam veteran, 1007 00:39:01,900 --> 00:39:03,220 MAN: As a Vietnam veteran, 1008 00:39:03,220 --> 00:39:03,460 there's one Cold Chisel song MAN: As a Vietnam veteran, 1009 00:39:03,460 --> 00:39:07,340 there's one Cold Chisel song that strikes a chord with me, 1010 00:39:07,340 --> 00:39:07,580 there's one Cold Chisel song and that's Khe Sanh. 1011 00:39:07,580 --> 00:39:08,700 and that's Khe Sanh. 1012 00:39:08,700 --> 00:39:11,180 # I had the Vietnam cold turkey... 1013 00:39:11,180 --> 00:39:13,900 Yeah, I was conscripted in 1966, 1014 00:39:13,900 --> 00:39:14,140 and the following year Yeah, I was conscripted in 1966, 1015 00:39:14,140 --> 00:39:16,540 and the following year went off to South-East Asia, 1016 00:39:16,540 --> 00:39:16,780 where I spent 318 days, and the following year went off to South-East Asia, 1017 00:39:16,780 --> 00:39:18,780 where I spent 318 days, 1018 00:39:18,780 --> 00:39:22,060 glorious days in lovely South Vietnam, 1019 00:39:22,060 --> 00:39:22,300 glorious days in lovely South Vietnam, uh, fighting for my country. 1020 00:39:22,300 --> 00:39:25,420 uh, fighting for my country. 1021 00:39:25,420 --> 00:39:25,660 # How there were uh, fighting for my country. 1022 00:39:25,660 --> 00:39:30,620 # How there were no V-day heroes in 1973... 1023 00:39:30,620 --> 00:39:33,500 The song brings back Vietnam and the times I was there, 1024 00:39:33,500 --> 00:39:33,740 The song brings back Vietnam and that I arrived home safely, 1025 00:39:33,740 --> 00:39:36,100 and that I arrived home safely, 1026 00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:38,500 and of those that didn't. 1027 00:39:38,500 --> 00:39:41,180 # And I've been back to South-East Asia 1028 00:39:41,180 --> 00:39:43,740 # You know the answer sure ain't there... # 1029 00:39:43,740 --> 00:39:48,980 In the years after it was released, the song has gained popularity. 1030 00:39:48,980 --> 00:39:52,300 The audience in the concerts go bananas when it's on. 1031 00:39:54,020 --> 00:39:56,460 # Really got me worried 1032 00:39:56,460 --> 00:39:59,140 # I'm goin' nowhere, and I'm in a hurry 1033 00:39:59,140 --> 00:40:03,420 # You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone... # 1034 00:40:03,420 --> 00:40:05,020 MARK: Khe Sanh is like a national anthem, 1035 00:40:05,020 --> 00:40:05,260 MARK: Khe Sanh just like Waltzing Matilda. 1036 00:40:05,260 --> 00:40:07,140 just like Waltzing Matilda. 1037 00:40:07,140 --> 00:40:09,740 People love it. It's in their lives, you know. 1038 00:40:09,740 --> 00:40:12,100 In fact, I think they could probably sing Khe Sanh 1039 00:40:12,100 --> 00:40:13,580 better than they could sing the national anthem. 1040 00:40:13,580 --> 00:40:18,660 # You know the last plane out of Sydney's almost gone. # 1041 00:40:26,140 --> 00:40:29,340 I firmly believe there are three generations of Chisel fan. 1042 00:40:29,340 --> 00:40:30,980 You know, there's the lucky ones, 1043 00:40:30,980 --> 00:40:33,940 the ones who found them, you know, mid '70s, 1044 00:40:33,940 --> 00:40:35,860 and they would have been at the pubs. 1045 00:40:35,860 --> 00:40:38,900 You know, I'm the middle generation where, you know, 1046 00:40:38,900 --> 00:40:43,180 I got the compilation records and then the reunion records. 1047 00:40:43,180 --> 00:40:45,060 And then there's the third generation, 1048 00:40:45,060 --> 00:40:45,300 And then there's and that's like my daughters. 1049 00:40:45,300 --> 00:40:46,740 and that's like my daughters. 1050 00:40:46,740 --> 00:40:49,700 And they came to this band via Sarah Blasko. 1051 00:40:49,700 --> 00:40:56,660 # Oh, the flame trees will blind the weary driver... # 1052 00:40:56,660 --> 00:40:59,660 And I was really familiar with Flame Trees my whole life, 1053 00:40:59,660 --> 00:41:01,620 'cause I heard it on the radio all the time, 1054 00:41:01,620 --> 00:41:06,180 and I was invited to sing on a version of it 1055 00:41:06,180 --> 00:41:07,860 for the film Little Fish. 1056 00:41:07,860 --> 00:41:12,860 # There's no change, there's no pace... 1057 00:41:12,860 --> 00:41:13,100 # There's no change, Pretty much every show I do, 1058 00:41:13,100 --> 00:41:14,860 Pretty much every show I do, 1059 00:41:14,860 --> 00:41:19,020 there's always somebody going, "Play Flame Trees!" (LAUGHS) 1060 00:41:19,020 --> 00:41:25,340 # Just makes it harder to believe 1061 00:41:25,340 --> 00:41:31,860 # She won't be around, oh. # 1062 00:41:31,860 --> 00:41:35,140 Cold Chisel getting into their 50th year. 1063 00:41:35,140 --> 00:41:38,100 Well, this, to me, it's truly amazing 1064 00:41:38,100 --> 00:41:41,860 and something I would have never foreseen. 1065 00:41:41,860 --> 00:41:42,100 and something And it's also making us... 1066 00:41:42,100 --> 00:41:43,380 And it's also making us... 1067 00:41:43,380 --> 00:41:46,580 It's making me feel very old. (LAUGHS) 1068 00:41:46,580 --> 00:41:46,820 It's making me feel very old. 50 years, my God. 1069 00:41:46,820 --> 00:41:48,340 50 years, my God. 1070 00:41:48,340 --> 00:41:48,580 So first order of business 50 years, my God. 1071 00:41:48,580 --> 00:41:52,140 So first order of business is looking at the album cover. 1072 00:41:52,140 --> 00:41:54,900 IAN: The next few months will see us getting back together 1073 00:41:54,900 --> 00:41:55,140 IAN: The next few months for another run late in the year. 1074 00:41:55,140 --> 00:41:57,380 for another run late in the year. 1075 00:41:57,380 --> 00:41:59,540 We're not known for our subtlety, really. 1076 00:41:59,540 --> 00:42:01,060 So with that in mind... But that's pretty good. 1077 00:42:01,060 --> 00:42:03,140 A little bit of trepidation, a little bit of nerves. 1078 00:42:03,140 --> 00:42:05,740 I'd go for the unsubtle one too. Yeah. 1079 00:42:05,740 --> 00:42:08,300 A certain amount of kind of feeling there's always... 1080 00:42:08,300 --> 00:42:11,740 We're still yet to deliver our best. 1081 00:42:11,740 --> 00:42:14,420 If we stop and retire and give up, that's... 1082 00:42:14,420 --> 00:42:16,260 That's the day we'll start dying. 1083 00:42:24,220 --> 00:42:29,140 TEX: They're our benchmark of how long you can keep this thing going. 1084 00:42:29,140 --> 00:42:29,420 Like the Rolling Stones, everyone's liking, TEX: They're our benchmark of how long you can keep this thing going. 1085 00:42:29,420 --> 00:42:31,940 Like the Rolling Stones, everyone's liking, 1086 00:42:31,940 --> 00:42:32,180 Like the Rolling Stones, "Wow." 1087 00:42:32,180 --> 00:42:33,220 "Wow." 1088 00:42:33,220 --> 00:42:36,420 (LAUGHS) "You can still do this." 1089 00:42:36,420 --> 00:42:36,620 (LAUGHS) "You can still do this." And it's good. 1090 00:42:36,620 --> 00:42:37,620 And it's good. 1091 00:42:37,620 --> 00:42:42,140 And, uh, Cold Chisel are our home, you know, example 1092 00:42:42,140 --> 00:42:45,180 of how long you can keep this going. 1093 00:42:45,180 --> 00:42:48,900 # I said The Rising Sun just stole my girl away... # 1094 00:42:48,900 --> 00:42:50,060 DON: We're knitted together, 1095 00:42:50,060 --> 00:42:53,580 probably a little bit better at dealing with things 1096 00:42:53,580 --> 00:42:53,820 probably a little bit better and a little bit wiser. 1097 00:42:53,820 --> 00:42:55,780 and a little bit wiser. 1098 00:42:55,780 --> 00:42:55,980 # On the last wave of summer and a little bit wiser. 1099 00:42:55,980 --> 00:42:59,740 # On the last wave of summer 1100 00:43:01,780 --> 00:43:06,940 # I lost my soul to you... # 1101 00:43:06,940 --> 00:43:07,180 # I lost my soul to you... # Charley Drayton plays with us now, and Charley is, like, 1102 00:43:07,180 --> 00:43:09,540 Charley Drayton plays with us now, and Charley is, like, 1103 00:43:09,540 --> 00:43:12,420 probably one of the best groove drummers in the world, 1104 00:43:12,420 --> 00:43:13,260 bar none, you know? 1105 00:43:13,260 --> 00:43:15,500 And a great friend of ours, dear friend. 1106 00:43:16,420 --> 00:43:18,420 He pays homage to Steve every night too. 1107 00:43:20,420 --> 00:43:25,260 # I lost it all to you 1108 00:43:25,260 --> 00:43:29,140 Last year I was in hospital and critical when I could have died, 1109 00:43:29,140 --> 00:43:29,380 Last year I was in hospital and and came close to it. 1110 00:43:29,380 --> 00:43:30,500 and came close to it. 1111 00:43:30,500 --> 00:43:30,740 Uh, and I want to play and came close to it. 1112 00:43:30,740 --> 00:43:34,260 Uh, and I want to play the music that I love 1113 00:43:34,260 --> 00:43:34,500 Uh, and I want to play with the band that I love. 1114 00:43:34,500 --> 00:43:36,180 with the band that I love. 1115 00:43:36,180 --> 00:43:40,780 # Oh... # 1116 00:43:40,780 --> 00:43:43,860 If I die after I've done this, at least I know I've done it. 1117 00:43:43,860 --> 00:43:47,020 Uh, I want to play music till the day we drop. 1118 00:43:47,020 --> 00:43:47,260 Uh, I want to play music # Oh, yeah... # 1119 00:43:47,260 --> 00:43:50,260 # Oh, yeah... # 1120 00:43:51,420 --> 00:43:53,060 If I can do this when we're 90, 1121 00:43:53,060 --> 00:43:53,300 I'll get the band If I can do this when we're 90, 1122 00:43:53,300 --> 00:43:55,340 I'll get the band back together again. 1123 00:43:55,340 --> 00:43:55,580 I'll get the band # Oh, oh yeah, whoa... # 1124 00:43:55,580 --> 00:44:00,740 # Oh, oh yeah, whoa... # 1125 00:44:01,740 --> 00:44:03,140 We're going to play and keep playing. 1126 00:44:10,580 --> 00:44:12,020 # Oh! # 1127 00:44:12,020 --> 00:44:13,740 Thank you very much. 1128 00:44:13,740 --> 00:44:15,780 (CHEERING) 1129 00:44:38,340 --> 00:44:40,140 Captions by Red Bee Media 1130 00:44:40,140 --> 00:44:41,940 Copyright Australian Broadcasting Corporation